You're correct - I spoke with only user-data in mind. On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 8:52 AM, Jean-Daniel Cryans <[email protected]> wrote: > IIRC ZK's data will still go there if HBase manages it, even in > distributed instances. > > J-D > > On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 7:12 PM, Harsh J <[email protected]> wrote: >> A distributed mode of HBase does not make use of the hbase.tmp.dir in >> any way. It simply leverages the DataNode's ability to scale over >> multiple disks and leaves the dirty work to it. >> >> Makes sense to be parallelized for "beefier" standalone instances, but >> I wonder who uses those and how it may even be done as HBase >> expects/uses a flat directory structure presently. >> >> On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 4:49 AM, anil gupta <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Hi All, >>> >>> I am trying to figure out the exact roll of "hbase.tmp.dir" in HBase but i >>> could not find any detailed reference on HBase wiki and mailing list >>> archives. Can anybody tell me for which purpose hbase.tmp.dir is used? Is >>> it a comma separated value that can take multiple directories? Any >>> reference document on it would be highly appreciated? >>> >>> -- >>> Thanks & Regards, >>> Anil Gupta >> >> >> >> -- >> Harsh J
-- Harsh J
